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Ofir Gal
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Network drivers are using sendpage_ok() to check the first page of an iterator in order to disable MSG_SPLICE_PAGES. The iterator can represent list of contiguous pages. When MSG_SPLICE_PAGES is enabled skb_splice_from_iter() is being used, it requires all pages in the iterator to be sendable. Therefore it needs to check that each page is sendable. The patch introduces a helper sendpages_ok(), it returns true if all the contiguous pages are sendable. Drivers who want to send contiguous pages with MSG_SPLICE_PAGES may use this helper to check whether the page list is OK. If the helper does not return true, the driver should remove MSG_SPLICE_PAGES flag. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Ofir Gal <ofir.gal@volumez.com> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240718084515.3833733-2-ofir.gal@volumez.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.